Desert Borderland

The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Egypt
Cover of the book Desert Borderland by Matthew H. Ellis, Stanford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Matthew H. Ellis ISBN: 9781503605572
Publisher: Stanford University Press Publication: March 20, 2018
Imprint: Stanford University Press Language: English
Author: Matthew H. Ellis
ISBN: 9781503605572
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication: March 20, 2018
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Language: English

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins—illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian–Libyan borderland—the book challenges prevailing notions of how Egypt and Libya were constituted as modern territorial nation-states.

Matthew H. Ellis draws on a wide array of archival sources to reconstruct the multiple layers and meanings of territoriality in this desert borderland. Throughout the decades, a heightened awareness of the existence of distinctive Egyptian and Ottoman Libyan territorial spheres began to develop despite any clear-cut boundary markers or cartographic evidence. National territoriality was not simply imposed on Egypt's western—or Ottoman Libya's eastern—domains by centralizing state power. Rather, it developed only through a complex and multilayered process of negotiation with local groups motivated by their own local conceptions of space, sovereignty, and political belonging. By the early twentieth century, distinctive "Egyptian" and "Libyan" territorial domains emerged—what would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins—illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian–Libyan borderland—the book challenges prevailing notions of how Egypt and Libya were constituted as modern territorial nation-states.

Matthew H. Ellis draws on a wide array of archival sources to reconstruct the multiple layers and meanings of territoriality in this desert borderland. Throughout the decades, a heightened awareness of the existence of distinctive Egyptian and Ottoman Libyan territorial spheres began to develop despite any clear-cut boundary markers or cartographic evidence. National territoriality was not simply imposed on Egypt's western—or Ottoman Libya's eastern—domains by centralizing state power. Rather, it developed only through a complex and multilayered process of negotiation with local groups motivated by their own local conceptions of space, sovereignty, and political belonging. By the early twentieth century, distinctive "Egyptian" and "Libyan" territorial domains emerged—what would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.

More books from Stanford University Press

Cover of the book Thinking Its Presence by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Bound Feet, Young Hands by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Engine of Impact by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Broke and Patriotic by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Labor and Love in Guatemala by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Memories of Absence by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Fighting Back by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Police Reform in Mexico by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Pilate and Jesus by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Riding Shotgun by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book The Institutional Imperative by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book The Experimental Imagination by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book A River Flows from Eden by Matthew H. Ellis
Cover of the book Romantic Intimacy by Matthew H. Ellis
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy